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SF Bay Area Orange Cube Here3 Help
I am in the SF Bay Area and need to get my multirotor up and flying for a research project. I am lookin for hands on help. The quad is built and ready to go with missiona planner but I am running into issues. I am looking for someone to go over thing
Read more…Radio Controller Questions Need some help Please.
Ok so I know everyone recommends the radiomaster tx16s over the TX12 but it's $100 cheaper where I'm at.
My question is... Can the TX12 do pretty much the same things as the TX16s? I'm wanting to start a project building my own heavy lift drones and I
Read more…Choppergirl's Sound Pack for Open-TX Transmitters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK7Kxbpy8Mk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAQNBjqyKAc
❤️️ Hello fighter pilots! ❤️️
Rock a new girl on your Radio!
I just released my new Free to Download Edgy Sound Pack for your Open TX transmitter's.microSD card
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Read more…Regarding quadplane motor frame oscillation
Hi guys,
We are currently making 4+1 quad plane using Pixhawk orange cube. In this recently we faced some issues while taking off the motor frame totally oscillating. We done manual and automatic Esc calibration and C.G position was proper. But stil
Read more…Flight Controller need
Hi everyone !
So I'm building my first drone and I'm kinda drown in all the technical specifities. I've found this build which seems easy enough :
ZOP POWER 14.8V 1500mAH 100C 4S Lipo Batterie avec prise XT60 (Battery)
EWRF VTX 5.8Ghz 40CH 25mW/200mW/65
Read more…OpenUAV open source fixed wing platform
Hello
We are developing a fix-wing UAV aircraft as a school project of Estonian Aviation Academy.
It is a classical twin-boom pusher design with plan MTOW of 25kg.
After we have finished constructing version 1 airframe, the project is planned to contin
Read more…Crashed when testing RTL / Stabilize mode
Hello,
I just finished building a 250 X quad a few days ago, did some short flight on Stabilize, and today I decided to try the Loiter / RTL mode and crashed it. I am pretty new to this so some help analyzing what I did wrong and/or what failed would
Read more…Fever issues in the motor.
Hi everybody,
I made a diy drone and specificatino is as below.
FCC : pixracer r15
ESC : Hobbywing Xrotor micro 60A 4in1
Motor : T-Motor 1300KV
When I tried to take off the drone, it can fly somehow.
But after flight Motor is too hot.
Is there any probl
Read more…Need help to complete drone.
Hi,
Guys, I need help completing my drone.
I have a naza, ran into problems with my taranis qx7 with and naza.
Will pay to setup.
Thx.
Read more…Is there a "popular" flight controller like how the Ender 3 is to 3D printing?
I'm looking to get back into ardupilot and I'm a little overwhelmed at the flight controller options. My last board was the original ArduPilot Mega from 10 years ago. I'm wondering if there is a reasonably priced, popular/standard flight controller o
Read more…Need Motor Suggestions: Heavy (18+ kg) quadcopter for school project
I was wondering if anyone had any motor/prop combo suggestions for a multi-disciplinary school project involving an airframe of about 18 kg. We're looking at every option we can find, but it's a little hard to look motors up by thrust capabilities,
Read more…[Big Talk] - To school or not to school in UAS
Greetings!
Some info about me before I go on, I am a watchmaker for about 5 years now and I've been looking to having a career change. What got me fascinated about mechanical timepiece is that I can literally see how it works and how well it made sens
Read more…FS-x6b not communicating with F4 V3s Plus
F4 V3s Plus does not have IBUS port. Tried ti use, as advised a free UART. Inmy case RX 6 and set:
serialrx_halfduplex=OFF
serialrx_inverted =OFF
I did set the receiver to IBUS as well as on my FS-i6 RC.
That did not solve the problem.
I tried another app
Read more…Innovative Interesting UAVs
The next “big thing” is always in the spotlight in today’s society. Many companies now prioritize how their devices will stand out among the standard items in the market, so there is an abundance of innovative UAVs for consumers.
We will explore some
Read more…I’m in desperate need of help with my 2 year lasting chinese-knockoff-nightmare-quad build!
Hi everyone,
First of all, let me say that I think this is a fantastic forum / platform. I've been following it for a while without the use of an account and decided it was about time to sign up. The reason I signed up is because I am in desperate n
Heavy Lift (20-60Kg) Frames ... who has one?
Over the last three years I have been monitoring the web for evidence of large, heavy lift, commercially capable systems, for loads in excess of 10Kg
As many of you may know, there are a lack of larger frames on the market, that can handle more than 1
DIY Drone Start-Up Feedback
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Read more…Tips: How to choose a quadcopter frame!
Step 1: Choosing your quadcopter frame sizes:
There are many different size frame, the most popular is 180mm-250mm(180mm frame means the diagonal axis distance is 180mm), they are also used for FPV racing quadcopter; more bigger one is from 280 mm to
Read more…Is ardupilot military/commercial grade?
I recently suggested in this thread:
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/need-uav-built-for-under-10k
that Ardupilot would be a low cost way to make a commercial/military UAV.
I haven't used ardupilot in autonomous mode yet, but I've been very impressed w
